United States Postal Service (USPS) Files Patent for a Blockchain-Based Voting System

The United States Postal Service has reportedly filed a patent for a blockchain-based mail-in voting system. The patent was filed back in February 2020 and was made public on Thursday 13th August. The system separates voter identification and votes to

Highlights

• The United States Postal Service has reportedly filed a patent for a blockchain-based mail-in voting system.
• The patent that was filed back in February 2020 was made public on Thursday 13th August.
• The system separates voter identification and votes to ensure vote anonymity, and stores votes on a distributed ledger in a blockchain.
• Some people are still of the opinion that the system would encourage fraudulence during the election, hence the need for blockchain technology to prevent tampering or modification of electronic voting results.
• The public patent application that contains 47 pages is majorly occupied with diagrams showing various components of the proposed system, coupled with each stage of the electronic process.
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